"I want to thank the people of Punjab, because of their prayers I have come out ten feet tall. I have sent a message to Rahul Gandhi ji & Priyanka Gandhi ji that my life is yours," ANI quoted the Congress minister soon after the Supreme Court acquitted Sindhu in the road rage case.

I want to thank the people of Punjab, because of their prayers I have come out ten feet tall. I have sent a message to Rahul Gandhi ji & Priyanka Gandhi ji that my life is yours: Navjot Singh Sidhu, Punjab Minister after being acquitted under Section 304 in road rage case. pic.twitter.com/ixwfQBY8Dn

The cricketer-turned-actor was granted bail by the SC after the Punjab and Haryana high court awarded him three years of imprisonment in the decade-old case.

On the other hand, the victim's family moved to the SC to enhance the three-year jail time given by the HC.

On December 27, 1988, the former cricketer allegedly hit Gurnam Singh, 65, after getting engaged into a spat with Gurman in Patiala. Singh was brought dead to a nearby hospital.

A trial court had acquitted Sidhu and his co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu in the 1998 road rage case.

However, the Punjab and Haryana high court found Sidhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and overturned the trial court's verdict.

A bench of Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh also convicted Navjot's friend and co-accused Rupinder Singh but suspended their sentences during the pendency of their appeals in the apex court.